Speakers

Plenary Speakers

  • Michael Barone, MD, MPH Michael Barone, MD, MPH
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    Michael Barone, MD, MPH

    Vice President
    Competency Based Assessment
    National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
    Philadelphia, PA

    Michael Barone is Vice President, Competency-Based Assessment at NBME in Philadelphia, PA, where he focuses on the assessment of skills and behavioral competencies for medical practice.  He is a pediatrician and medical educator and completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Michael has served in various previous leadership roles, including Vice President for Licensure Programs at NBME, and Director of Medical Student Education, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and Associate Dean for Faculty Educational Development at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He continues to teach and mentor at Johns Hopkins as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics.

  • Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
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    Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC

    Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC

    Assistant Professor
    Rush University College of Nursing
    Chicago, IL

    Margaret Perlia Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at Rush University College of Nursing. Dr. Bavis currently maintains a clinical practice and directs a NP clinical training program at CommunityHealth, Chicago, the nation’s largest volunteer-based free clinic. In addition, Dr. Bavis coordinates the FNP simulation program focusing on students’ clinical reasoning and clinical competence. Dr. Bavis’ interests include clinical teaching, diagnostic reasoning, simulation and providing care for under resourced populations.

  • Paul Bergl, MD Paul Bergl, MD
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    Paul Bergl, MD

    Paul Bergl, MD

    Intensivist in Critical Care
    Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
    La Crosse, WI

    My scholarly work has focused on diagnostic error in critically ill patients, and I have prioritized (above all else) diagnostic reasoning in my various educational roles over the years. I currently serve as the director for SIDM's Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.

  • andrea_bradford Andrea Bradford, PhD
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    Andrea Bradford, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Medicine-Gastroenterology
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Dr. Andrea Bradford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where she divides her effort between clinical and research missions. Her clinical practice focuses on behavioral interventions for adults with chronic medical conditions, whereas most of her research focuses on understanding how clinicians and systems can improve the safety of the diagnostic process. Dr. Bradford is also involved in teaching medical students and psychology trainees. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings and has served on the boards of the Society for Health Psychology and the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers.

  • David Burstein David Burstein
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    David Burstein

    Medical Director
    Associates in Internal Medicine
    Assistant Professor
    Division of General Internal Medicine
    Rush University Medical Center
    Chicago, IL

    Dr. Burstein practices adult primary care and is the Medical Director of his practice, Associates in Internal Medicine. He is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. In 2020, Dr. Burstein received the Founder's Grant from the Society of General Internal Medicine, which is given to early-career researchers with the potential to make impactful contributions to the field of general internal medicine. His expertise includes physician work-environments, electronic health record use, physician-patient relationships and medical-decision making, and burnout. He was selected as a Fellow in Diagnostic Excellence in 2022 for a pilot project to evaluate whether financial incentives improve clinicians' documentation of information that can improve the diagnostic process.

  • Maria Dahm Mary Dahm, PhD, MA
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    Mary Dahm, PhD, MA

    ARC DECRA Fellow
    Senior Research Fellow
    Institute for Communication in Health Care
    Australian National University
    Canberra, Australia

    Dr. Maria R. Dahm is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH) at the Australian National University. She is a leader in the field of in diagnostic communication with a particular focus on diagnostic uncertainty. Dr Dahm holds a prestigious 2022 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship from the Australian Research Council where her 3-year project addresses how communication can to improve diagnosis, and patient safety. Her research focuses on investigating the impact of health communication on diagnostic excellence and quality and safety of care, and improving consumer engagement in health communication research.

  • Helene Epstein, BS Helene Epstein, BS
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    Helene Epstein, BS

    Board of Directors
    Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
    Alpharetta, GA

    Helene has grown accustomed to being the only person in the room without an MD after her name. Since 1999, she has served on committees, panels, and boards of directors for medical research projects, healthcare organizations, public schools, and grant-givers. She first became an advocate for families dealing with crisis when her son’s complex 15-year diagnostic journey began. She has been a published writer for over 25 years, known for turning complex issues into accessible information so readers can apply the information to their own lives. She has done so for topics ranging from healthcare to policy to parenting issues and many more. Helene is a proud member of SIDM’s Patient Engagement Advisory Committee and the author of SIDM’s Dx IQ column, which helps engage and empower patients in their search for an accurate diagnosis. Helene’s personal mission is to ensure no adult, parent, senior, child, or family member ever has to accept a wrong diagnosis again as she did, unprotected and unarmed. She seeks to help educate, empower, and encourage patients to ask questions, pursue answers, access resources, and band together with others to support one another.

  • Kelly Gleason, PhD Kelly Gleason, PhD, RN
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    Kelly Gleason, PhD, RN

    Assistant Professor
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Baltimore, MD

    Dr. Kelly Gleason is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her approach to diagnostic quality springs from her experiences as a bedside nurse. In her work, she explores best ways to systematically hear from patients and nurses to inform diagnostic safety efforts.

  • Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd
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    Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd

    Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd

    Professor of Medicine
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
    Bronx, NY

    Cristina M. Gonzalez, M.D., M.Ed., an alumna of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed her internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medical Center, and her medical education research fellowship at University of Cincinnati, earning a Master’s Degree in Medical Education.  Upon completion of that fellowship she was selected as a Scholar in the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  This prestigious four-year award launched her research program designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions aimed at implicit bias recognition and management in clinical encounters.  She was subsequently selected as a Scholar in the Macy Faculty Scholars Program of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to continue advancing her work.    Dr. Gonzalez is an internationally renowned expert in the development of skills-based curricular interventions in implicit bias recognition and management (IBRM) for physicians across the continuum of training and practice. In 2019 she transitioned from foundation funding and was awarded NIH funding from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities. This grant provides five years of funding to design and validate novel metrics facilitating future evaluation of interventions focused on IBRM with robust, clinically relevant outcome metrics. In 2022 she was selected as a Scholar in the National Academy of Medicine’s Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program. This funding mechanism will enable her to continue her work in IBRM through the lens of equity in diagnosis. She recently joined New York University Grossman School of Medicine as a Professor of Medicine and Population Health and an Associate Director for the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity.

  • Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ
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    Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ

    Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ

    Health Scientist Administrator
    US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS)
    Rockville, MD

    Monika Haugstetter is a master’s prepared nurse with a Master of Health Administration from Quinnipiac University and a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale University School of Nursing. Her professional focus has been on directing quality improvement projects, managing variety of domestic and international public health and health research programs, facilitating and overseeing patient safety initiatives, development, implementation and monitoring of domestic and international training and education clinical programs, and teaching graduate level nurses. She currently serves as a Health Scientist Administrator at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, in the General Patient Safety (GPS) Division. Prior to AHRQ, her positions included a Chief of Clinical Education, US Peace Corps, Office of Health Services, an Adjunct Professor, University of Hartford, College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions teaching graduate level nurses, a Healthcare Quality Improvement Projects Manager, Qualidigm, and a Research Compliance Auditor/Health Advocate, Human Subject Protections Office, University of Connecticut Health Center, among others.

  • Harry Hoar Harry Hoar, MD
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    Harry Hoar, MD

    Internal Medicine & Pediatric Hospitalist
    Baystate Health
    Springfield, MA

    Dr. Harry Hoar is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist, Medical Director of Quality Assurance, and Director of Clinical Reasoning Education at Baystate Medical Center- UMass Chan Medical School.  He created the Clinical Reasoning Academy, a novel interprofessional education series that brings together providers, nurses, other medical professionals, patient advocates, and patients to improve diagnostic quality and safety culture at Baystate.  He is a long-time member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and co-chair of the SIDM 2023 conference.

  • Adina Kern-Goldberger Adina Kern-Goldberger
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    Adina Kern-Goldberger

    Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
    Case Western Reserve University
    Cleveland, OH

    Adina Kern-Goldberger is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and maternal-fetal medicine clinical faculty at the Cleveland Clinic and a member of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences. In addition to clinical care of patients with high-risk pregnancies, she is a healthcare delivery scientist who focuses on clinical interventions to improve maternal pregnancy outcomes through safer, higher quality obstetric care. Her interest in diagnostic error surrounds the care of pregnant and postpartum patients in non-obstetric settings

  • David Klimpl, MD David Klimpl, MD
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    David Klimpl, MD

    Physician
    University of Colorado
    Aurora, CO

    Dr. David Klimpl, MD, MS, is an academic Hospitalist at The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center where he specializes in Hospitalist Advanced Practice Provider education and curriculum development.  Dr. Klimpl has built Hospitalist APP curricula in multiple academic centers including Johns Hopkins and The University of Colorado and has published multiple research articles on this topic. He is the PI of a highly successful grant funded hospitalist APP clinical reasoning curriculum and has been asked to present on his educational research nationally and internationally.  Dr. Klimpl has been awarded or nominated for five teaching awards and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies.    In his free time he enjoys cooking, skiing, and playing with his dog, Marzipan.

  • Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D. Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D.
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    Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D.

    Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D.

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Baltimore, MD

    Susrutha Kotwal, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He is a practicing hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is interested in health professions education and developing / researching educational curricula to improve the science of diagnosis. He has developed diagnostic reasoning curricula, a simulation-based curriculum to improve dizziness diagnosis, and has won several national grants. He was awarded the Institute for Excellence in Education’s Outstanding Educator Award for faculty < 10 years at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

  • David Kudlowitz David Kudlowitz
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    David Kudlowitz

    Internist
    NYU Langone Medical Center

    Dr. David Kudlowitz is an internist at NYU Langone Medical Center. He practices inpatient and outpatient medicine. He directs the Integrated Clinical Skills course for the 1st year medical students at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is a SIDM fellow with an interest in the formation of problem representations in early learners.

  • Ann Marie Kumfer, MD Ann Marie Kumfer, MD
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    Ann Marie Kumfer, MD

    Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine
    UNC School of Medicine
    Chapel Hill, NC

    Ann Marie Kumfer is an academic hospitalist at UNC where she also completed her residency. She enjoys teaching on the wards and leading clinical reasoning sessions with residents and colleagues. She also enjoys listening, and occasionally participating, in medical podcasts. She considers herself a student and life-longer learner of medicine and diagnostic reasoning, rather than an expert.  She always happy to share her reasoning and vulnerabilities to encourage others to do the same. In her spare time, you will find her training for a race, hanging out with her husband and dog, planning an adventure, or watching British comedy TV shows.

  • Ava Liberman, MD Ava Liberman, MD
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    Ava Liberman, MD

    Assistant Professor of Neurology
    New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
    New York, NY

    Dr. Ava L. Liberman is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Liberman earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Neurology at Northwestern University serving as a Chief Resident in her final year followed by a two-year fellowship in Vascular Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a SIDM fellow in 2016. Dr. Liberman's research interests include healthcare delivery, implementation science, clinical decision making, diagnostic error, and headache medicine. Dr. Liberman is currently funded by a K23 career development award from the National Institute of Health and her work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.

  • Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM, BS Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM, BS
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    Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM, BS

    Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM, BS

    Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality and Safety
    Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
    Baltimore, MD

    Dr. Kathryn (Kathy) McDonald is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality and Safety at Johns Hopkins University. She holds primary appointments in the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), as well as academic affiliations in business, public health and engineering. She is Co-Director of the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and recently served as Interim Director of the Center on Innovative Care for Aging. Previously, at Stanford University, she was the founding executive director of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and executive director of the Center for Health Policy. Her interdisciplinary scholarship aims to improve health care delivery, and relies on close partnerships with patients, frontline clinical teams, and delivery system leaders. Influential research products include over 100 evidence-based national quality, prevention and safety measures for improving care and reducing inequities. She has also authored seminal publications on coordination of care, patient safety practices and quality improvement strategies. She has served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making, advisory chair for the Relational Coordination Collaborative, and founding chair of the Patient Engagement Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. She has also served as a member of National Academy of Medicine Committees — one on Child Health and Healthcare Measures, and another on Improving Diagnosis and Reducing Diagnostic Errors – that grappled with challenges of measuring and improving quality, equity and health.

  • Kristen Miller, DrPH Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS
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    Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS

    Senior Scientific Director
    MedStar Health, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
    Washington, D.C.

    Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS is the Senior Scientific Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Affiliate Faculty at Georgetown Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Miller is a clinically oriented human factors researcher focusing on medical decision making, diagnostic safety, informatics, and the assessment of medical interventions with an emphasis on usability, human error, and patient safety. Her portfolio includes federally funded work from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, and Pew Charitable Trust. Her research interests also include an evaluation of the ethical, legal, and policy implications of health information technology and digital health tools.

  • Alan Nevel Alan Nevel
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    Alan Nevel

    SVP, Chief Equity and Community Impact Officer
    The MetroHealth System
    Cleveland, OH

    Alan K. Nevel is Senior Vice President, Chief Equity and Community Impact Officer for The MetroHealth System.   In this uniquely integrated leadership role, Alan is charged with creating and driving a community-focused, patient-centric strategy that promotes health equity and the eradication of healthcare disparities by developing collaborative relationships with community/neighborhood development partners, education, business, social services and faith-based organizations, government and healthcare professionals. Alan is also responsible for creating an overarching vision of equity, inclusion, and diversity (EID) for MetroHealth —both at the programmatic and administrative level by working across departments, programs, and initiatives to eliminate systemic disparities and inequities that impact, patients, employees and the community.   Alan joined MetroHealth in 2018 as SVP, Chief Diversity and Human Resources Officer after having served as VP, Global Diversity and Inclusion for Thermo Fisher Scientific, a $40 billion global life science solutions, specialty diagnostics and laboratory equipment company with over 100,000 employees in 60 countries. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Alan served in Diversity and Inclusion, HR Strategy Delivery, Talent Development, and Organizational Change Management roles at specialty fashion retailers, L Brands and Victoria’s Secret. Alan began his professional career in R&D and manufacturing at the Sherwin Williams Company before moving on to a successful management consulting career with Accenture.   A highly sought-after speaker and educator, Alan is a graduate of the Wickliffe City Schools, Cleveland State University (B.A.) and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management (MBA).  Alan is passionate about giving back to his community and serving the underserved. He is a proud member of the Cleveland (OH) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Ethisphere’s Equity & Social Justice Initiative Advisory Council and currently serves as a Board Director for The Cleveland State University Foundation, Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Recovery Resources, New Bridge Cleveland, Creating Healthier Communities and the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation.   To illustrate his steadfast commitment to education, Alan established the Alan K. Nevel and Family Scholarship Endowment for underrepresented minority students attending his alma mater, Cleveland State University.

  • Meredith Ford O'Neal Meredith Ford O’Neal
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    Meredith Ford O’Neal

    Chief Executive Officer
    The John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health
    Los Angeles, CA

    For Meredith O’Neal, the mission of John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health (JRF) is incredibly personal. When she was 33 years old and 37 ½ weeks pregnant, she became the fifth thoracic aortic dissection in four generations of her family. Her professional history and passion to find answers for her family made her a perfect fit for JRF when she joined in 2021 as Chief Executive Officer.

    After graduating with a BFA in Music from Texas Tech University, O’Neal worked for Dallas Summer Musicals (now Broadway Dallas) in the community outreach and development department. This led her to more than a decade of non-profit management in North Texas through large-scale fundraising events: Cattle Baron’s Ball for American Cancer Society and Cotes du Coeur for American Heart Association.

    O’Neal thrives on raising funds, advocating for systematic change, connecting people, and raising awareness to save the lives of more families like hers. She lives in Texas with her husband and 5-year-old son. Family is what drives her, and she is determined to ensure that she is the last in her family to be taken surprise by thoracic aortic dissection.

  • Goutham Rao, MD Goutham Rao, MD
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    Goutham Rao, MD

    Goutham Rao, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor in Family Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University
    Cleveland, OH

    Goutham Rao, MD is the Jack Medalle Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is also Chief Clinician Experience Officer for the University Hospitals Health System. Dr. Rao is board certified in both family medicine and obesity medicine and practices in both specialties.  He is an established health services researcher who is currently the PI of the  UH-ADVANCE (Advancing Diagnosis through Validated Analytics and Novel Collaborations for Excellence) Center - an AHRQ-funded diagnostic safety center of excellence.  He is or has led or served as a co-investigator of a number of other large research projects funded by AHRQ, PCORI, the NIH and the American Heart Association. Dr. Rao's focus is improving the diagnosis of common but serious conditions in primary care. He is the author of more than 100 publications, including four books. He is Editor-in-Chief of Family Practice: An International Journal (Oxford University Press). He has or does serve in a number of prominent national roles. He is a past chair of the American Heart Association's Obesity Committee and currently serves on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.  Dr. Rao is a graduate of McGill University School of Medicine and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Toronto. He competed fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Christopher Runyon, PhD Christopher Runyon, PhD
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    Christopher Runyon, PhD

    Christopher Runyon, PhD

    Senior Measurement Scientist
    National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
    Philadelphia, PA

    Christopher Runyon is a measurement scientist at NBME. His current primary research focus is the assessment of clinical reasoning. He also has experience building automated scoring frameworks that utilize natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). His prior academic work includes the study of causal inference with observational data, thinking heuristics and biases, philosophical and mathematical logic, and non-classical logic systems. Christopher received his doctorate in quantitative methods at the University of Texas in Austin, a master’s in cognitive psychology at James Madison University, undergraduate degrees in philosophy and psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and an undergraduate degree in religious studies at the University of Virginia.

  • Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE
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    Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE

    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    New York City, NY

    Verity Schaye serves as the Assistant Dean of Education in the Clinical Sciences and the Director of Integrated Clinical Skills in the Office of Medical Education at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and clinically as an internal medicine hospitalist at Bellevue Hospital. She completed her MD in 2008 and completed her internal medicine residency training at New York university School of Medicine in 2011. In 2016, she received a MHPE from Maastricht University with an education research focus in best practices to teach and assess clinical reasoning and also serves as the Assistant Director for Curricular Innovation in the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education at NYU focusing on innovative assessment of clinical reasoning including use of artificial intelligence to assess clinical reasoning documentation. She was a SIDM Fellow in 2019 and is chairing this year's conference.

  • Gordon Schiff, MD Gordon Schiff, MD
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    Gordon Schiff, MD

    Gordon Schiff, MD

    Associate Director
    Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
    Boston, MA

    Dr. Schiff is a practicing general internist and Associate Director of Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and Quality and Safety Director for Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care.

    He has published widely in areas of medication and diagnosis safety. He was a reviewer and contributor to the 2015 National Academy of Medicine Report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. He chairs editorial board of Medical Care. He has authored more than 200 papers and chapters including several recent papers detailing conservative prescribing and diagnosis practices as ways to transform unsafe and costly use of drugs and diagnostic testing.

    He is recipient of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the 2019 Mark Graber Diagnosis Safety Award by the Society for Improving Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), and in 2020 John Eisenberg Award by the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission.

  • Tamer Seckin, MD, FACOG, ACGE Tamer Seckin, MD, FACOG, ACGE
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    Tamer Seckin, MD, FACOG, ACGE

    Co-Founder
    The Endometriosis Foundation of America
    New York, NY

    A pioneer endometriosis specialist and internationally renowned advanced laparoscopic surgeon, Dr. Seckin is a Clinical Associate Professor at Zucker School of Medicine and educator on endometriosis around the world. With over thirty years of experience exclusively performing excision surgery on complex endometriosis cases, Dr. Seckin is in private practice in NYC and works out of Lenox Hill Hospital. In 2006, he founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America, which has funded over $1 million in research. Dr. Seckin has published 12 peer reviewed articles, including co-authorship on the article, “Cancer-Associated Mutations in Endometriosis without Cancer” (New England Journal of Medicine), one of the most referenced papers on this subject. In addition to his research, Dr. Seckin has 3 patented surgical techniques and 2 surgical trademarks. Dr. Seckin’s book, The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis, is rated the No. 1 most-read book on endometriosis (Goodreads.com). He also wrote Endometriosis: A Guide for Girls.

  • Jaime Seltzer Jaime Seltzer, BS, MS
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    Jaime Seltzer, BS, MS

    Director of Scientific and Medical Outreach
    ME Action
    Santa Monica, CA

    Jaime Seltzer is the Director of Scientific and Medical Outreach at the nonprofit advocacy organization #MEAction and a researcher with Stanford Medicine.  At #MEAction, she fosters communication between healthcare and government institutions, research scientists, clinicians, and people with infection-associated chronic illnesses. She has represented #MEAction at CDC, NIH, on Capitol Hill, with national healthcare institutions in Australia, Canada, and the UK, and in university-led research groups for ME/CFS and Long COVID. She has worked with Stanford, Columbia, Mayo Clinic Rochester, and Project ECHO on post-infectious chronic complex diseases, including ME/CFS and Long COVID.  She is also a person living with ME/CFS.

  • Stephanie Sherman, MD Stephanie Sherman, MD
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    Stephanie Sherman, MD

    Assistant Professor
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Dr. Sherman is an academic hospitalist and internal medicine residency associate program director at Baylor College of Medicine, where she sees patients and works with learners at Houston's VA and county hospitals. She is also the Editor of Images in Clinical Medicine for the New England Journal of Medicine and a contributor to the Clinical Problem Solvers.

  • Margie Shofer, BSN, MBA Margie Shofer, BSN, MBA
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    Margie Shofer, BSN, MBA

    Health Scientist Administrator
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Rockville, MD

    Margie Shofer, the Director of the General Patient Safety Program within the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), manages the Agency’s activities related to general patient safety issues including funding of grants and contracts, and development and dissemination of evidence-based patient safety tools and resources. She has a particular interest in engaging patients and families to improve patient safety and oversaw the work to develop three different AHRQ resources to engage patients and families in their care in ways that improve patient safety.  More recently she has led the Agency's work to improve diagnostic safety and quality. Before working in CQuIPS she worked in AHRQ's Office of Communication where she oversaw several different AHRQ learning networks, including the Medicaid Medical Directors Learning Network and the High Reliability Organizations Learning Network. Prior to working at AHRQ, Ms. Shofer was a senior policy analyst with the American Association of Health Plans, assistant staff to the Health Committee at the National Conference of State Legislatures, and committee staff for the House Environmental Matters Committee of the Maryland General Assembly.  Ms. Shofer began her health care career working as an RN at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.   She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and from Boston University’s MBA program where she concentrated in health care management.

  • Rani Snyder, MPA Rani Snyder, MPA
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    Rani Snyder, MPA

    Vice President, Program
    The John A. Hartford Foundation
    New York, NY

    Rani E. Snyder, MPA, is Vice President, Program at The John A. Hartford Foundation. Ms. Snyder has over 25 years of experience working with preeminent health care institutions across the nation improving the care of older adults, identifying and guiding health care programs that have set the standard for medical best practices, increasing medical education opportunities, and maximizing resources to improve health care broadly. She brings that experience to The John A. Hartford Foundation where she coordinates initiatives that foster collaboration among academic institutions, hospitals and health care providers to build Age-Friendly Health Systems, support family caregivers, and improve serious illness and end-of-life care. She is a board member and past board chair for Grantmakers in Aging, a membership organization comprised of philanthropies with a common dedication to improving the experience of aging, a board member for the American Society on Aging, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and previously served as a Volunteer Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the State of Nevada Aging and Disability Services Division.

  • Airica Steed, Ed.D, MBA, RN, CSSMBB, FACHE Airica Steed, Ed.D, MBA, RN, CSSMBB, FACHE
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    Airica Steed, Ed.D, MBA, RN, CSSMBB, FACHE

    Airica Steed, Ed.D, MBA, RN, CSSMBB, FACHE

    Chief Executive Officer & President
    The MetroHealth System
    Cleveland, OH

    Dr. Airica Steed serves as the first woman, first Black person and first nurse to be appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and President for The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, comprised of $1.7B net revenue, five acute and specialty-care hospitals, 8,000 employees and providers, over 40 ambulatory care locations and one of the most highly regarded academic public health systems across the country. She is renowned for spearheading large scale transformations encompassing greater than $300M in combined financial improvements, top decile quality/safety performance outcomes and healthy profitable growth, as well as making monumental groundbreaking advancements in health equity and eradicating health care disparities. As a proud fourth generation nurse, she is fighting passionately to zero out the death gap, to make sure that every person has an equal chance at living a long and healthy life and to simultaneously lift up the wealth in underserved communities.  Dr. Steed is a vastly accomplished and award-winning transformational health care executive with over 20 years of exceptional leadership experience and a proven track record of driving results, including recognition as: •    Modern Healthcare’s “Top Women Leaders,” “Top 25 Minority Leaders in Healthcare,” “Top 25 Healthcare Innovators” and "Up & Comer" •  Diversity MBA magazine’s "Top 100 Executive Leaders Under 50" •  Becker's Hospital Review’s “Women Hospital Presidents and CEO’s to Know,” "Top 130 Female Healthcare Leaders to Know," “Black Healthcare Leaders to Know” and "Rising Star"  Dr. Steed is recognized as a strategic and visionary change leader, transformational architect and international expert in Lean Six Sigma, Malcolm Baldrige framework and “Big 4” management consulting across academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, safety net organizations, ambulatory clinics and networks, multi-site clinically integrated health care systems and Federally Qualified Health Centers. She is an avid speaker on the national and international level, a published author and a board member and faculty member spanning several organizations. She received her Doctorate of Education in Ethical Leadership (Ed.D) with distinction, Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and numerous certifications, including Master Black Belt and International Trainer in Lean Six Sigma and is pursuing a second Masters in Global Development from Harvard University.

  • Jake Tapper, CNN Jake Tapper
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    Jake Tapper

    CNN Anchor

    CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper joined the network in January 2013. Tapper currently hosts a one-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper, which debuted in March 2013, and has hosted CNN's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, since June 2015.

    Tapper imparts his political expertise on State of the Union by conducting interviews with top newsmakers on politics and policy, covering Washington, the country and the world. The Lead covers headlines from around the country and the globe with topics ranging from breaking news in politics and world events, to money, sports, and popular culture.

    Most recently, Tapper lent his political expertise to CNN's 2016 election coverage and moderated two Presidential Primary debates. On election night, Tapper played a pivotal role in the network's coverage of the race and provided analysis on projections throughout the evening.

    Tapper has been a widely-respected reporter in the nation's capital for more than 15 years. His reporting on the 2016 election has been recognized with a number of awards, including a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism, the Los Angeles Press Club's Presidents Award for Impact on Media, and The Canadian Journalism Foundation's Tribute to Exemplary Journalism. Tapper has also earned the coveted Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage from the White House Correspondents' Association an unprecedented three consecutive times.

    In addition to his reporting, Tapper has also authored three books, including The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, published in 2012, Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, which was published in 2001, and Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story, which was published in 1999. His most recent book, The Outpost, debuted in the top 10 on The New York Times best seller list. Tapper's book and his reporting on the veterans and troops were cited when the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded him the "Tex" McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism. Tapper is currently working on his debut novel, Hellfire Club, slated to publish in Spring of 2018.

    Tapper joined CNN from ABC News, where he most recently served as Senior White House correspondent, a position he was named to immediately following the 2008 presidential election. He also played a key role in ABC News' Emmy award winning coverage of the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, and its Murrow-Award winning coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden.

    In his more than nine years at ABC News, Tapper covered a wide range of stories, visiting remote corners of Afghanistan, covering the war in Iraq from Baghdad, and spending time in New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levee system. In 2008, he served as a lead political reporter for the coverage of the presidential election.

    Prior to joining ABC News, Tapper served as Washington correspondent, then national correspondent, for Salon.com. He began his journalism career at the Washington City Paper and his reporting has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Weekly Standard, among others. He has drawn caricatures and illustrations for the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and his comic strip, "Capitol Hell," appeared in Roll Call from 1994 to 2003. In 2001, he hosted the CNN show Take 5, a weekend program that featured young journalists talking about politics and pop culture.

    He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, daughter and son.

  • Julie Thai Julie Thai
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    Julie Thai

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Stanford University School of Medicine
    Stanford, CA

    Dr. Julie Thai, MD, MPH is geriatric medicine specialist who is dual board certified in both geriatric medicine and family medicine. She completed her fellowship training in geriatric medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Before that, she completed her family medicine residency at McLaren-Flint/Michigan State University College of Human Medicine where she also earned her medical degree.  Additionally, Dr. Thai holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Thai has contributed to research in rheumatology (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and ankylosing spondylitis), urology (renal stone disease, clinical markers and outcomes, and testing and development of new technologies), and end of life care. She has co-authored articles on topics such as caregivers’ communication with elders living with late-life disability, palliative care practices in diverse settings, and the social consequences of forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s disease. She is currently the 2022-2023 SIDM Age-Friendly Care Fellow. Her work focuses on developing curriculum in undergraduate and graduate medical education to help medical learners improve their diagnosis of older adult patients.

  • Gabor Toth Gabor Toth
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    Gabor Toth

    Physician
    University of Debrecen

    Gabor Toth is a physician and physician-economist at the University of Debrecen with 10+ years of experience in academic research and seven years of experience in business in the medical education field. Currently specializing in laboratory medicine/clinical pathology, Gabor uses that experience to advance and support efficient clinical diagnostics. By focusing on efficient diagnostics, Gabor has put the MD, PhD and physician-economist degrees he earned at the University of Debrecen and Corvinus University of Budapest to good use. Over the years, Gabor's strengths at InSimu have garnered recognition by national and international startup awards in the medical and educational space. When he is not at the Clinical Center, he is an avid classical pianist who loves traveling with family.

  • Alberta Tran, PhD, RN, CCRN Alberta Tran, PhD, RN, CCRN
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    Alberta Tran, PhD, RN, CCRN

    Senior Research Scientist
    MedStar Health’s Institute for Quality and Safety
    Columbia, MD

    Allie Tran, PhD, RN is a Senior Research Scientist with the MedStar Health Research Institute and MedStar Health Institute for Quality and Safety. Dr. Tran has a clinical background in critical care nursing, and received her PhD in nursing with a focus on health systems research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She has previously taught nursing and medical students in clinical simulation, team-based communication, health innovation, and older adult health. Dr. Tran's research is aimed at uncovering knowledge related to the organization and delivery of care in hospital and ambulatory-care settings, improving diagnostic communication and quality for older adults, and developing nurse-led interventions to improve quality and safety. She has studied other important and related health workforce issues, including nurse turnover, nurse transitions between specialty areas, travel nurse staffing, and primary care physician workforce diversity.

  • Craig Umscheid, MD, MS Craig Umscheid, MD, MS
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    Craig Umscheid, MD, MS

    Director
    Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Rockville, MD

    Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S., is a hospitalist and clinical epidemiologist who serves as the Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  He practices clinically at Georgetown University Hospital, where he is an Adjunct Professor.  Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Umscheid was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he served as the Chief Quality and Innovation Officer. He began his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became an Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for the Department of Medicine, and was a co-founder and Director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Practice.  His career has been dedicated to disseminating and implementing research evidence into clinical practice to support patient care quality and safety. This work has been supported by AHRQ, PCORI, CDC and NIH, and has been described in over 125 peer-reviewed publications and cited over 10,000 times.

  • Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS
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    Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS

    Biostatistician
    Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Viralkumar Vaghani is a Biostatistician at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) VA Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests include improving patient safety, developing electronic trigger algorithms to measure diagnostic errors, and application of machine learning to improve diagnosis in medicine. He is a former SIDM fellow of Diagnostic Excellence.

  • Andrew Zimolzak Andrew Zimolzak, MD, MMSc
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    Andrew Zimolzak, MD, MMSc

    Assistant Professor
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Andrew Zimolzak is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, department of medicine, section of health services research; and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt). Dr. Zimolzak has studied the secondary use of routinely collected medical data for 10 years. He has direct experience with the retrieval and analysis of data from electronic medical records from multiple health care systems, as well as medical insurance claims. This work has been applied to physicians’ delayed follow-up of patient test results, diagnostic errors in the emergency department, randomized trials of medications for hypertension and heart failure, pharmacogenomics, lung cancer genomic precision medicine, kidney failure prediction, and outcome prediction in COVID-19. Dr. Zimolzak has practiced general internal medicine in urgent care and inpatient hospital settings for over ten years. In addition to research efforts, he is a teaching hospitalist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston. His interests include deriving accurate phenotype information from medical records, machine learning for improved efficiency of data cleaning, and research code reproducibility and sharing. He has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Other Speakers

  • Kisha Ali, PhD, MS Kisha Ali, PhD, MS
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    Kisha Ali, PhD, MS

    Research Scientist
    MedStar Health’s Institute for Quality and Safety
    Columbia, MD

    Dr. Ali is a Research Scientist at the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety. Dr. Ali helped to develop the TeamSTEPPS® for Improving Diagnosis Resource for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and has taught the TeamSTEPPS® Master Trainer course in the U.S. and internationally. She has technical expertise in study design methodology, mixed-methods evaluation, implementation science, content development, and training clinical teams. Her work is in patient safety and quality improvement, with a focus is on improving rural healthcare. Dr. Ali is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  • Trish Anderson Trish Anderson, MBA, BSN, CPHQ
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    Trish Anderson, MBA, BSN, CPHQ

    Senior Director of Safety & Quality
    Washington State Hospital Association
    Seattle, WA

    Trish Anderson is a Senior Director of Safety & Quality at the Washington State Hospital Association where she leads strategic initiatives on Diagnostic Excellence.

  • Matt Austin, PhD Matt Austin, PhD
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    Matt Austin, PhD

    Professor
    Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
    Baltimore, MD

    Matt Austin is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a principal faculty member at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. His research focuses on performance measurement in health care. Matt's current research interests include understanding the role of transparency of quality and safety data in driving improvements in care delivery, measuring disparities in the quality of care, and measuring the diagnostic performance of hospitals. Matt currently provides strategic guidance to The Leapfrog Group on their measurement and public reporting activities.

  • Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
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    Margaret Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC

    Assistant Professor
    Rush University College of Nursing
    Chicago, IL

    Margaret Perlia Bavis, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at Rush University College of Nursing. Dr. Bavis currently maintains a clinical practice and directs a NP clinical training program at CommunityHealth, Chicago, the nation’s largest volunteer-based free clinic. In addition, Dr. Bavis coordinates the FNP simulation program focusing on students’ clinical reasoning and clinical competence. Dr. Bavis’ interests include clinical teaching, diagnostic reasoning, simulation and providing care for under resourced populations.

  • Dan Berg Dan Berg
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    Dan Berg

    Patient Advocate
    Minneapolis, MN

    tired in 2016 from The Minneapolis Foundation, where he worked with charitable Minnesota families for nearly twenty years. Following the death of his daughter, Julia Berg, as a consequence of diagnostic error, he has published articles and commentaries about the culture of medicine and medical systems from the patient/family perspective. With his wife, Welcome Jerde, he has participated in numerous forums on the topic of patient safety through the University of Minnesota Medical School, the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety, and the American Association of Medical Colleges. He has participated in several projects and conference planning committees for the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). He serves as chair of the Patient Engagement Advisory Committee of SIDM, and in 2022 received its first annual Patient Engagement Award.

  • Paul Bergl, MD Paul Bergl, MD
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    Paul Bergl, MD

    Intensivist in Critical Care
    Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
    La Crosse, WI

    My scholarly work has focused on diagnostic error in critically ill patients, and I have prioritized (above all else) diagnostic reasoning in my various educational roles over the years. I currently serve as the director for SIDM's Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.

  • Kate Buchanan, MPH Kate Buchanan, MPH
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    Kate Buchanan, MPH

    Social Scientist
    Battelle
    Columbus, OH

    Kate Buchanan, MPH, a social scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute, has 10 years of experience in health care policy and measurement implementation. Currently she works on the National Consensus Development and Strategic Planning for Health Care Quality Measurement (NCDC) contract awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On the NCDC she is the task lead for the Core Quality Measures Collaborative, a coalition of health care leaders working to facilitate cross-payer measure alignment. She is also the task co-lead of the Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review, the annual process to provide recommendations to CMS on the selection of quality measures under consideration. Ms. Buchanan was the project lead for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded work to develop the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative: Measure Implementation Challenge-to-Action Brief, which focuses on implementation challenges of diagnostic performance measures and actions that the field can take to mitigate these challenges. Prior to joining Battelle, Ms. Buchanan was a senior manager at the National Quality Forum (NQF). Ms. Buchanan has extensive experience facilitating working groups around health care quality improvement, federal value-based payment programs, and mitigating the negative impacts of the social determinants of health.

  • Jake D Bunn, MLS(ASCP)CM Jake D. Bunn, MLS(ASCP)CM, MBA
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    Jake D. Bunn, MLS(ASCP)CM, MBA

    Clinical Laboratory Scientist
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Atlanta, GA

    Jake Bunn is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist supporting projects with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), Quality and Safety cores of the CDC Office Of Laboratory Science and Safety's Division of Laboratory Systems.  Mr. Bunn is a board-certified American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Medical Laboratory Scientist.  He holds a Master's of Business Administration as well as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's of Science in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Cincinnati.    Before joining CDC, Mr. Bunn was the Clinical Microbiology Manager and the Laboratory System Safety Officer for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA).  In this position, he led the hospital system through the COVID-19 pandemic laboratory response.  Mr. Bunn continues to work as a Microbiology Medical Technologist at CHOA on an as-needed basis.    Mr. Bunn is a former laboratory accreditation inspector for the College of American Pathologists (CAP), inspecting clinical laboratories nationwide.  He has also worked in laboratory technical supervisory positions at many organizations, such as a national primate research center, a cancer treatment center, and community hospitals.    Mr. Bunn is a United States Air Force veteran, having served abroad during Operation Enduring Freedom and in support of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense and National Health Service (NHS) during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

  • David Burstein David Burstein
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    David Burstein

    Medical Director
    Associates in Internal Medicine
    Assistant Professor
    Division of General Internal Medicine
    Rush University Medical Center
    Chicago, IL

    Dr. Burstein practices adult primary care and is the Medical Director of his practice, Associates in Internal Medicine. He is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. In 2020, Dr. Burstein received the Founder's Grant from the Society of General Internal Medicine, which is given to early-career researchers with the potential to make impactful contributions to the field of general internal medicine. His expertise includes physician work-environments, electronic health record use, physician-patient relationships and medical-decision making, and burnout. He was selected as a Fellow in Diagnostic Excellence in 2022 for a pilot project to evaluate whether financial incentives improve clinicians' documentation of information that can improve the diagnostic process.

  • Helen Burstin, MD, MPH Helen Burstin, MD, MPH
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    Helen Burstin, MD, MPH

    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
    Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)

    Helen Burstin, MD, MPH is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). CMSS and its 43-member societies represent almost 800,000 U.S. physician members. CMSS member societies collaborate to enhance the quality of care delivered in the U.S. healthcare system and to improve the health of the public. Dr. Burstin formerly served as Chief Scientific Officer of The National Quality Forum. Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Burstin was the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Burstin was Director of Quality Measurement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She was selected as a Baldrige Executive Fellow in 2016. Dr. Burstin is the author of more than 90 articles and book chapters on quality, safety and disparities.

  • Alex Campione Alex Campione
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    Alex Campione

    Project Analyst
    The Leapfrog Group
    Washington, DC

    Alexandra Campione is a Program Analyst at the Leapfrog Group. She works closely with internal and external team members to ensure Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade Program reflects the highest standards for measurement and public reporting. For Leapfrog’s Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis initiative, Campione lead the data management and analysis of a Pilot Survey that assessed 95 hospitals’ familiarity and implementation of 29 key practices to reduce diagnostic errors. Her work at Leapfrog includes analyzing data from the CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, as well as providing technical expertise to hospitals. Campione holds a master’s degree in Public Health with a specialty in Epidemiology from the George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Medical Geography from the University of Florida.

  • Christina L. Cifra, MD, MS Christina L. Cifra, MD, MS
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    Christina L. Cifra, MD, MS

    Assistant Professor
    Boston Children’s Hospital
    Harvard Medical School
    Boston, MA

    Dr. Christina L. Cifra is a health services and patient safety researcher in the field of diagnostic excellence in pediatrics and critical care. She completed pediatric critical care fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and received formal quality improvement training as a resident scholar at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She completed her MS degree in Translational Biomedicine, focusing on translation to populations, at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She is currently an attending pediatric intensivist in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and a member of the faculty of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cifra has published foundational studies on the frequency and causes of diagnostic error in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and has proposed a unified research agenda for diagnostic excellence in critical care medicine. She is currently investigating diagnostic error and the role of diagnostic uncertainty in the assessment of critically ill children on PICU admission and is conducting ethnographic work in the PICU to delineate the influence of referral communication on the PICU diagnostic process. She is also leading innovative work on diagnostic process handoffs across institutions, which includes studies aiming to standardize referral communication for inter-facility transfers to the PICU and improve feedback to PICU-referring clinicians. In addition to her scientific contributions, Dr. Cifra has also devoted considerable effort to facilitating wider recognition and support for scholarship in diagnostic excellence. She is the current Chair of the Research Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and is an Associate Editor for Diagnosis, the premier journal for diagnostic safety research.

  • karen_cosby Karen Cosby, MD, FACEP, CPPS
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    Karen Cosby, MD, FACEP, CPPS

    Program Director
    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    Palo Alto, CA

    Karen Cosby, MD, FACEP, CPPS is an academic emergency medicine physician who has practiced and taught emergency medicine for 30 years. As Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University and senior emergency physician at Cook County Hospital she led departmental and hospital wide Quality and Oversight divisions and focused her academic work on better understanding medical error and finding system solutions to improve patient safety. As a Program Director of the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, she manages a portfolio of grants designed to improve measurement of diagnostic quality. She is one of the founding members of SIDM and helped originate and lead the SIDM Fellowship in Diagnosis, and since joining the Foundation has helped establish similar opportunities for fellows and scholars with the National Academy of Medicine and the Society of Bedside Medicine. She has edited two books: Diagnosis Interpreting the Shadows and Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.

  • Maria Dahm Mary Dahm, PhD, MA
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    Mary Dahm, PhD, MA

    ARC DECRA Fellow
    Senior Research Fellow
    Institute for Communication in Health Care
    Australian National University
    Canberra, Australia

    Dr. Maria R. Dahm is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH) at the Australian National University. She is a leader in the field of in diagnostic communication with a particular focus on diagnostic uncertainty. Dr Dahm holds a prestigious 2022 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship from the Australian Research Council where her 3-year project addresses how communication can to improve diagnosis, and patient safety. Her research focuses on investigating the impact of health communication on diagnostic excellence and quality and safety of care, and improving consumer engagement in health communication research.

  • Jessica Dreicer, MD Jessica Dreicer, MD
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    Jessica Dreicer, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    University of Virginia Health
    Charlottesville, VA

    Jess Dreicer is a general internist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. She received her MD in 2015 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency training at Oregon Health & Science University in 2018. She serves as Associate Program Director of the UVA Internal Medicine residency overseeing the patient safety and quality improvement curriculum and as a GME Clinical Reasoning Coach. Her academic interests include clinical reasoning with a focus on prognostic reasoning and its intersection with improving medical education and patient safety. She is a SIDM Fellow in this current 2023-2024 cohort working on a project to deepen our understanding of the relationship between diagnostic and prognostic reasoning.

  • Al Duke, MBA, BSN, RN,CPHRM, CEN, CPPS Al Duke, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHRM, CEN, CPPS
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    Al Duke, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHRM, CEN, CPPS

    Manager
    Risk Management and Patient Safety
    BETA Healthcare Group
    Roseville, CA

    Al Duke brings over 20 years of emergency department experience from staff nurse to department director. He has served in all capacities in the ED at both urban academic settings to smaller community hospitals. In addition, Al has faculty appointments at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and School of Nursing, providing interdisciplinary education in Leadership and Statistics. Dedicated to patient safety and quality care, Al contributed to the development of core competencies in emergency nursing in partnership with the Emergency Nurse Association and published on this work. He has also presented both locally, nationally, and internationally on TeamSTEPPS, simulation, the use of Lean/Six Sigma strategies, patient safety, clinical decision-making, human factors, and emergency care. Al currently works for BETA Healthcare Group, in his role, he provides risk management and patient safety expertise to member organizations.  Al is very active in the Emergency Nurses Association, where he sits on the ENA national Advocacy Advisory Council and is the President-elect for the California State Council of ENA.    Al received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Loma Linda University and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. He is currently working on a doctorate in leadership and system design at Loma Linda University. Additional certifications include Certified Emergency Nurse, Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management, Certified Professional in Patient Safety, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Master TeamSTEPPS Trainer, and continues to evolve in Just Culture and Human Factors concepts.

  • Meridith Eastman, PhD, MSPH Meridith Eastman, PhD, MSPH
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    Meridith Eastman, PhD, MSPH

    Senior Health Research Scientist
    Battelle
    Columbus, OH

    Dr. Eastman directs Battelle's provision of measure development technical assistance to four cohorts of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Diagnostic Excellence Initiative grantees. Prior to joining Battelle in 2020, Dr. Eastman served as testing lead for outpatient imaging efficiency measures in CMS’s Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program, as well as for home- and community-based services (HCBS) measures under development for Medicaid. In this capacity, her work focused on testing and evaluating reliability and validity of quality measures derived from a variety of data sources, including electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and survey-based measures. Dr. Eastman has 16 years of research and research management experience in a broad array of health and health services areas including adolescent health, mental health, chronic disease prevention in community and workplace settings, and states’ efforts to balance institutional and HCBS within the long-term services and supports system (LTSS).

  • Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH, MS Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH, MS
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    Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH, MS

    Associate Professor of Medicine
    University of California, San Diego Health
    San Diego, CA

    Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego. He also serves as Associate Chief Medical Officer for Transformation and Learning and leads the Clinical Decision Support Oversight Committee at UC San Diego Health. Clinically, he is a practicing hospital medicine physician and is board-certified in Clinical Informatics.

    Dr. El-Kareh's primary academic activities involve the use of clinical data to improve diagnostic safety in healthcare. Dr. El-Kareh has active research and performance improvement projects related to detection and evaluation of inpatient diagnostic delays, systematic feedback of patient outcomes to frontline providers and tools to guide the appropriate use of diagnostic tests.

  • Helene Epstein, BS Helene Epstein, BS
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    Helene Epstein, BS

    Board of Directors
    Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
    Alpharetta, GA

    Helene has grown accustomed to being the only person in the room without an MD after her name. Since 1999, she has served on committees, panels, and boards of directors for medical research projects, healthcare organizations, public schools, and grant-givers. She first became an advocate for families dealing with crisis when her son’s complex 15-year diagnostic journey began. She has been a published writer for over 25 years, known for turning complex issues into accessible information so readers can apply the information to their own lives. She has done so for topics ranging from healthcare to policy to parenting issues and many more. Helene is a proud member of SIDM’s Patient Engagement Advisory Committee and the author of SIDM’s Dx IQ column, which helps engage and empower patients in their search for an accurate diagnosis. Helene’s personal mission is to ensure no adult, parent, senior, child, or family member ever has to accept a wrong diagnosis again as she did, unprotected and unarmed. She seeks to help educate, empower, and encourage patients to ask questions, pursue answers, access resources, and band together with others to support one another.

  • Keren Eyal, MD, MPH Keren Eyal, MD, MPH
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    Keren Eyal, MD, MPH

    Resident
    Children’s Hospital Colorado
    Aurora, CO

    Dr. Keren Eyal is a third-year pediatric resident at the University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado. She plans to pursue a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her research interests include disparities in the Pediatric Emergency Department, especially disparities in pediatric traumatic injuries.

  • Katherine Gavinski Katherine Gavinski, MD, MPH, MS Ed.
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    Katherine Gavinski, MD, MPH, MS Ed.

    Clinical Instructor
    University of Pittsburgh

    Katie Gavinski, MD, MPH, MS Ed. is a clinician-educator and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her personal and professional passions collide within clinical reasoning education. She has developed numerous projects to improve our understanding of expert diagnostic reasoning and how we teach learners to engage in this vital component of clinician development. Dr. Gavinski has years of experience teaching clinical reasoning to both students and residents. Dr. Gavinski completed residency and chief year in internal medicine at UT Southwestern and more recently completed a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on assessing clinical reasoning curricula in UME. She practices in both the inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.

  • Jeffrey Geppert, EdM, JD Jeffrey Geppert, EdM, JD
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    Jeffrey Geppert, EdM, JD

    Senior Research Leader
    Battelle
    Columbus, OH

    Jeffrey J. Geppert is a Senior Research Leader at Battelle Memorial Institute in the Health Business Unit.  He has served for the past nine years as the clinical quality measure (CQM) subject matter expert on the Measures Management System (MMS) contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and before that was the project director on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Support for Quality Indicators contract for ten years.  Jeffrey also serves as the measurement science team leader on the National Consensus Development Contract (NCDC) with CMS.  For the past four years, he has provided technical assistance to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation grantees on the development of CQM for diagnostic performance.

  • traber_giardina Traber Giardina, PhD
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    Traber Giardina, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Baylor College of Medicine and Houston VA
    Houston, TX

    Dr. Giardina is a patient safety researcher and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Dr. Giardina’s work focus on patients’ experiences of diagnostic error and exploring methods to leverage health IT to improve patient engagement in safety.

  • Christine Goeschel Christine Goeschel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN, FAAN
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    Christine Goeschel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN, FAAN

    Assistant Vice President
    Medstar Institute for Quality and Safety
    Columbia, MD

    Dr. Christine (Chris) Goeschel is a health care consultant, teacher, mentor, and implementation scientist who recently retired from her role as a system leader at MedStar Health and professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. During her tenure as Assistant Vice President in the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety (MIQS) and inaugural Director of the Center for Improving Healthcare Diagnosis, Chris focused her research on clinical and administrative leadership to improve the science of health care delivery and on improving diagnostic processes.

    Her experience includes diverse health care roles: as a critical care nurse, a hospital executive, as founder and first executive for the Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality, and as an implementation scientist/quality and patient safety researcher. Dr. Goeschel was Michigan PI on groundbreaking research to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units from 2003-2005, ("Keystone ICU"). From 2006 until 2013 she was an assistant professor in the schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing at Johns Hopkins and an advisor to the World Health Organization Patient Safety Program, where she contributed to large scale improvement projects in Spain, England, and Peru and the Middle East. She was a member of the 2013-2015 "NAM" Committee that produced "Improving Health Care Diagnosis" as part of the IOM Crossing the Quality Chasm series.

    Dr. Goeschel served on The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council for Quality and Safety Research (NAC), and for five years on the SIDM National Advisory Committee for the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis. Chris was PI on three unique multi-year awards focused on building diagnostic capacity and improving diagnostic processes to achieve diagnostic excellence. In addition to peer reviewed publications and 12+AHRQ issue briefs (developed by national leaders addressing diverse aspects of diagnostic safety), resources developed during the awards include publicly available tools focused on diagnostic calibration, measurement, patient and family engagement and teamwork.Dr Goeschel continues to teach a required healthcare leadership course at Johns Hopkins and serves on the Board of a multi-hospital system in Michigan.

  • Jeffrey Gold, MD Jeffrey Gold, MD
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    Jeffrey Gold, MD

    Professor of Medicine
    Oregon Health & Science University
    Portland, OR

    Dr. Gold began his training and career in New York, going to NYU Medical School then Columbia Presbyterian for residency and then back to NYU for fellowship in Pulmonary Critical Care. After completing fellowship Dr. Gold joined the faculty at NYU as a translational researcher in sepsis and septic shock. While serving in the role, Dr. Gold also served as Director for Critical Care services for Bellevue hospital. Dr. Gold was recruited to OHSU in 2005 where he received a number of grants focus on the host immune response in sepsis, pneumonia and cystic fibrosis.   In 2011, Dr. Gold’s research focus shifted toward understanding the usability of Electronic Health Records in the ICU, specifically focused on the ability to use simulated patient charts to create high-fidelity EHR training exercises as well as provide a test bed to objectively assess usability of the EHR.  This infrastructure has led to a number of publications and Dr. Gold has received grants from AHRQ to conduct this research. Recently, Dr. Gold has expanded this work to include understanding how all member of the interprofessional team (Nurses, pharmacists physicians etc….) interact with the EHR during ICU rounds. This work has expanded to use of EHR based simulation for training of medical scribes and now to understand the role the EHR plays in the genesis of diagnostic error in ambulatory care.  Dr. Gold currently is a Professor of Medicine at Oregon health & Sciences University. He has held numerous administrative positions including program director for OHSUs Pulmonary Critical Care and Critical Care fellowships (2010-2017) and Director of Simulation for OHSU (2012-2018). Dr Gold currently serves as Vice Chair for Quality and Safety for the Department of Medicine, serves as the Director for the OHSU Health Disparities Reduction Core and Director for Advanced EHR Training and Evaluation.  With these roles, Dr. Gold is integrating patient safety, EHR usability, training and equity into a Learning Health System ecosystem at OHSU.

  • Mark Graber, MD, FACP Mark Graber, MD, FACP
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    Mark Graber, MD, FACP

    Founder
    Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

    Dr. Graber is Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. He has an extensive background in biomedical and health services research, with over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He originated Patient Safety Awareness Week in 2002, an event now recognized internationally. He is the 2014 recipient of the John M Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality, awarded by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, the nation's top honor in the field of patient safety.    Dr. Graber has been a pioneer in efforts to address diagnostic errors in medicine, and his academic work in this area has been supported by the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He convened and chaired the first Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference in 2008, and in 2011 he founded the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), and served as President from 2011 through 2018.

     

  • Sarah Haeger, MD, PhD Sarah Haeger, MD, PhD
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    Sarah Haeger, MD, PhD

    Chief Medical Resident
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Aurora, CO

    Sarah Haeger is currently a chief resident in the University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program. She previously completed her MD/PhD at the University of Colorado before staying for her internal medicine residency training and her chief resident year. She is currently applying and interviewing for nephrology fellowship programs. Sarah has always had a passion for clinical reasoning and as chief resident hopes to improve management reasoning education for medical learners.

  • Maritza Harper, MD Maritza Harper, MD
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    Maritza Harper, MD

    Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Pittsburgh, PA

    Dr. Harper is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics trained pediatric hospital medicine fellow passionate about clinical reasoning and graduate medical education. She attended Weill Cornell Medical College for her medical degree, completed her active-duty service with the United States Navy before returning to complete her Med-Peds residency training at Nemours Children's Health and Christianacare.  She is currently pursuing her masters in medical education through the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Helen Haskell, MA Helen Haskell, MA
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    Helen Haskell, MA

    Patient Advocate
    Mothers Against Medical Error
    Columbia, SC

    Helen Haskell is president of the nonprofit patient organizations Mothers Against Medical Error and Consumers Advancing Patient Safety. She is an Institute for Healthcare Improvement senior fellow, a board member of the Patient Safety Action Network and the International Society for Rapid Response. She is a recently retired board member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and a previous chair of the Patient Engagement Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and of the WHO Patients for Patient Safety Advisory Group. She continues to work with the World Health Organization on patient safety and patient engagement and with SIDM and AHRQ on diagnostic issues.   Helen’s goal since the medical error death of her young son Lewis has been to enhance the patient contribution to safety and quality in healthcare. She has written or co-authored dozens of articles, book chapters, and educational materials on patient engagement in safety, quality, and diagnosis, including a co-edited textbook of case studies from the patient perspective. Her son Lewis’s story has been featured in educational programs and videos including Transparent Health’s full-length Lewis Blackman Story. Helen holds a bachelor's degree in Classical Studies from Duke University and a master’s degree in Anthropology from Rice University in the United States.

  • Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ
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    Monika Haugstetter, MHA, MSN, RN, CPHQ

    Health Scientist Administrator
    US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS)
    Rockville, MD

    Monika Haugstetter is a master’s prepared nurse with a Master of Health Administration from Quinnipiac University and a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale University School of Nursing. Her professional focus has been on directing quality improvement projects, managing variety of domestic and international public health and health research programs, facilitating and overseeing patient safety initiatives, development, implementation and monitoring of domestic and international training and education clinical programs, and teaching graduate level nurses. She currently serves as a Health Scientist Administrator at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, in the General Patient Safety (GPS) Division. Prior to AHRQ, her positions included a Chief of Clinical Education, US Peace Corps, Office of Health Services, an Adjunct Professor, University of Hartford, College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions teaching graduate level nurses, a Healthcare Quality Improvement Projects Manager, Qualidigm, and a Research Compliance Auditor/Health Advocate, Human Subject Protections Office, University of Connecticut Health Center, among others.

  • Harry Hoar Harry Hoar, MD
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    Harry Hoar, MD

    Internal Medicine & Pediatric Hospitalist
    Baystate Health
    Springfield, MA

    Dr. Harry Hoar is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist, Medical Director of Quality Assurance, and Director of Clinical Reasoning Education at Baystate Medical Center- UMass Chan Medical School.  He created the Clinical Reasoning Academy, a novel interprofessional education series that brings together providers, nurses, other medical professionals, patient advocates, and patients to improve diagnostic quality and safety culture at Baystate.  He is a long-time member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and co-chair of the SIDM 2023 conference.

  • Michael Kanter, MD, CPPS Michael Kanter, MD, CPPS
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    Michael Kanter, MD, CPPS

    Professor and Chair
    Clinical Sciences
    Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
    Pasadena, CA

    Dr Michael Kanter is currently a Professor and Chair of Department of Clinical Science at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine.  He was previously the executive vice president over quality for the Permenente Federation where he has had oversight of the quality of care provided by 22,000 physicians to 12.2 million patients within the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system nationally, and was responsible for the development of the organization’s national quality strategy. He has a wide range of interests in clinical quality and patient safety and has designed and implemented a new model of care for chronic disease and prevention called Complete Care, which includes an interactive patient portal and proactive customized checklist that helps to increase the reliability of ambulatory care and increase patient engagement. He designed and implemented KP Sure Net, a program to decrease missed or delayed diagnoses and increase medical safety. In addition, he oversaw the creation of a language concordance program that matched bilingual physicians to patients with limited English-speaking abilities, and created a cardiovascular mortality reduction program that achieved a 50 percent reduction in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction from 2000 to 2014 and also eliminated many health disparities among African Americans in the Medicare population. He has authored more than 110 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as Harvard Business Review. He co-authored chapters in five books, and is a frequent speaker at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, National Patient Safety Foundation, and Diagnostic Errors in Medicine conferences and meetings.

  • Adina Kern-Goldberger Adina Kern-Goldberger
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    Adina Kern-Goldberger

    Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
    Case Western Reserve University
    Cleveland, OH

    Adina Kern-Goldberger is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and maternal-fetal medicine clinical faculty at the Cleveland Clinic and a member of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences. In addition to clinical care of patients with high-risk pregnancies, she is a healthcare delivery scientist who focuses on clinical interventions to improve maternal pregnancy outcomes through safer, higher quality obstetric care. Her interest in diagnostic error surrounds the care of pregnant and postpartum patients in non-obstetric settings

  • Sundas Khan, MD Sundas Khan, MD
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    Sundas Khan, MD

    Quantitative Methodologist
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Sundas Khan, MD, is a Quantitative Methodologist at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, a joint research lab between Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine. Her research expertise lies in implementation of evidence-based medicine, adaptive clinical decision support, and developing electronic tools for patients and providers based on user-centered design. In her current role, Dr. Khan is responsible for informing research study design, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.

  • David Koch, PhD, DABCC, FAACC David Koch, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
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    David Koch, PhD, DABCC, FAACC

    Interim Co-Director
    Clinical Laboratories and Clinical Pathology
    Grady Health System
    Atlanta, GA
    Director
    Clinical Chemistry, Toxicology, and POCT
    Grady Memorial Hospital
    Atlanta, GA
    Professor
    Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    Emory University
    Atlanta, GA

    David D. Koch, Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC, is …

    • Professor of Pathology in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
    • Director of Clinical Chemistry, Toxicology, and Point-of-Care Testing at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
    • Certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Academy of ADLM. 
    • Co-Director of the Postdoctoral Training Program in Clinical Chemistry at Emory. 
    • The immediate Past-Chair of the AACC Policy and External Affairs Core Committee, which is responsible for providing guidance to the AACC President and Board of Directors on legislative and regulatory issues of importance to the Association, advocating for and initiating policies related to these topics, and taking advantage of media opportunities that will further the cause of our Association and profession.
    • A clinical chemist for over 40 years.
    • A sought-after speaker on the evaluation of clinical laboratory methods, laboratory statistics, and quality control.
    • Author of more than 60 articles, 12 book chapters, and over 70 abstracts and other publications.
    • Past President of AACC, and Secretary of the Academy for 4 years.
    • Recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award from Purdue University.
    • Recipient of the Alvin Dubin Award in August of 2019 from the Academy and AACC.
    • A member of the 2022 AACC Annual Meeting Organizing Committee (AMOC).

  • Dheerendra Kommala, MD Dheerendra Kommala, MD
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    Dheerendra Kommala, MD

    Chief Medical Officer
    ECRI
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

    Dheerendra Kommala, MD, is Chief Medical Officer at ECRI, responsible for ECRI’s Medical Office. He joined ECRI in 2019 as Chief Strategy Officer responsible for setting the organization’s strategic direction.

    Dr. Kommala brings more than 20 years of experience as an academic clinician, researcher, and chief medical officer. He successfully introduced new products and services to markets throughout the world by working collaboratively with major health systems, industry leaders, clinicians, and patients. Throughout his career, he has been a vocal advocate for patient safety and a visionary leader managing large teams.

    Prior to joining ECRI, Dr. Kommala was global vice president of medical affairs for Baxter Healthcare. Previous experience included working as chief medical officer/global vice president of medical affairs for ConvaTec, and as associate medical director of Global Pharmaceutical Research for Renal Care, Abbott Laboratories.

    Dr. Kommala received his initial medical training in India, and completed a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine.

  • Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D. Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D.
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    Susrutha Kotwal, M.B.B.S., M.D.

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Baltimore, MD

    Susrutha Kotwal, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He is a practicing hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is interested in health professions education and developing / researching educational curricula to improve the science of diagnosis. He has developed diagnostic reasoning curricula, a simulation-based curriculum to improve dizziness diagnosis, and has won several national grants. He was awarded the Institute for Excellence in Education’s Outstanding Educator Award for faculty < 10 years at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

  • David Kudlowitz David Kudlowitz
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    David Kudlowitz

    Internist
    NYU Langone Medical Center

    Dr. David Kudlowitz is an internist at NYU Langone Medical Center. He practices inpatient and outpatient medicine. He directs the Integrated Clinical Skills course for the 1st year medical students at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is a SIDM fellow with an interest in the formation of problem representations in early learners.

  • Juan Lessing, MD, FACP Juan Lessing, MD, FACP
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    Juan Lessing, MD, FACP

    Associate Professor of Medicine
    University of Colorado
    Aurora, CO

    Juan N. Lessing MD, FACP is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. He earned an Art and Archaeology degree from Princeton, attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and completed residency and chief residency at the University of Washington, Seattle. His professional passion is the art and science of clinical and management reasoning especially within medical education. At the University of Colorado, he is passionate about teaching learners "how, not what, to think" to enhance lifelong learning and improve patient care.

  • Andrés Lessing, MBA Andrés Lessing, MBA
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    Andrés Lessing, MBA

    Andrés Lessing, MBA

    Patient Advocate

    Andrés Lessing works for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as a Technical Business and Compliance Senior Manager. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brandeis University and an MBA from Boston College. Andrés serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors at Neurofibromatosis Northeast in Burlington, MA and is a Town Meeting Member in Milton, MA. He further supports Neurofibromatosis Research serving as Co-Chair of the Patient Representation Group at the REiNS (Response Evaluation in Neurofibromatosis and Schwannomatosis) International Collaboration. He is proud to serve as a patient advocate and participates in yearly lobbying efforts for congressional research funding. He and his wife enjoy speaking Spanish to their twin sixth graders who more often than not respond in English.

  • Ava Liberman, MD Ava Liberman, MD
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    Ava Liberman, MD

    Ava Liberman, MD

    Assistant Professor of Neurology
    New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
    New York, NY

    Dr. Ava L. Liberman is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Liberman earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Neurology at Northwestern University serving as a Chief Resident in her final year followed by a two-year fellowship in Vascular Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a SIDM fellow in 2016. Dr. Liberman's research interests include healthcare delivery, implementation science, clinical decision making, diagnostic error, and headache medicine. Dr. Liberman is currently funded by a K23 career development award from the National Institute of Health and her work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.

  • Ira M. Lubin, PhD, FACMG Ira M. Lubin, PhD, FACMG
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    Ira M. Lubin, PhD, FACMG

    Ira M. Lubin, PhD, FACMG

    Lead
    Diagnostic Excellence Initiative
    Division of Laboratory Systems
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Atlanta, GA

    Dr. Lubin leads the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative (DEI) out of the Division of Laboratory Systems, Centers for Disease Control and Capacity. The DEI works and collaborates with the private and public health sectors to leverage clinical laboratory expertise, capabilities, and data to advance diagnostic excellence and promote health equity across healthcare delivery settings and medical disciplines. Dr. Lubin has been at CDC for greater than 20 years, has held various leadership roles, and maintains board certification in clinical molecular genetics. He has made substantive contributions to public health, laboratory medicine, health systems translational studies, and standards/policy development. Dr. Lubin has participated as member, presenter, and chair to federal and professional groups and advisory committees.

  • Joseph Lutgring, MD Joseph Lutgring, MD
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    Joseph Lutgring, MD

    Joseph Lutgring, MD

    Medical Officer
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Atlanta, GA

    Dr. Lutgring is a medical officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in infectious diseases and medical microbiology. He is interested in antimicrobial resistance and diagnostic stewardship.

  • Arjun Manrai, PhD Arjun Manrai, PhD
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    Arjun Manrai, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
    Harvard Medical School
    Boston, MA
    Deputy Editor
    NEJM AI

    Arjun (Raj) Manrai, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, where he leads a research lab that works broadly on applying machine learning and statistical modeling to improve medical decision-making. Raj is also a founding Deputy Editor of NEJM AI, the new AI-focused journal from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine, and co-host of the NEJM AI Grand Rounds podcast. Focus areas for Raj’s research group include the clinical use of genomic data and blood laboratory biomarkers, inherited heart disease and kidney disease, decision making across populations, and reproducibility and robustness challenges for medical AI. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, presented at the National Academy of Sciences, and featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Raj is also closely involved in the mentoring of students at Harvard College, having served for over a decade as a Resident Tutor and now member of the Senior Common Room of Leverett House. Students from the lab have won the Rhodes, PD Soros, and other awards to continue their training and research in machine learning and medicine. Raj took the scenic route to medical AI, earning an AB in Physics from Harvard College followed by a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). He resides in the Boston area and outside work he can usually be found losing home dance competitions to his 2 young daughters.

  • Kristen Miller, DrPH Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS
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    Kristen Miller, DrPH

    Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS

    Senior Scientific Director
    MedStar Health, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
    Washington, D.C.

    Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS is the Senior Scientific Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Affiliate Faculty at Georgetown Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Miller is a clinically oriented human factors researcher focusing on medical decision making, diagnostic safety, informatics, and the assessment of medical interventions with an emphasis on usability, human error, and patient safety. Her portfolio includes federally funded work from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, and Pew Charitable Trust. Her research interests also include an evaluation of the ethical, legal, and policy implications of health information technology and digital health tools.

  • Brian Mittman, PhD Brian Mittman, PhD
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    Brian Mittman, PhD

    Brian Mittman, PhD

    Senior Scientist
    Kaiser Permanente Southern California
    Pasadena, CA

  • Alexandra Muise Alexandra Muise
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    Alexandra Muise

    Alexandra Muise

    Medical Student
    UC San Diego
    San Diego, CA

    Alexandra Muise is a PGY-1 in the Internal Medicine program at UC San Diego. She completed her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering and her medical degree at UC San Diego as well. Her research interests include clinical reasoning in medical education, and in her free time she likes to play board games and play with her 2 tuxedo cats.

  • Nadine Murray, RN/RM Nadine Murray, RN/RM
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    Nadine Murray, RN/RM

    Midwifery Manager
    Monash Health

    Bachelor of Nursing,
    Graduate Diploma in Midwifery,
    Certificate Nurse Immuniser,
    Associate Midwifery Manager - Birth Suite Monash Health, Victoria, Australia
     
    I am a passionate and dedicated leader in nursing and midwifery with over 30 years of experience working in tertiary level hospitals. I have worked around the world including the USA, UK and Ireland. For the last 22 years I have been a Birth Suite Midwifery manager at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne. Australia. As a midwife and leader, I am dedicated to providing exceptional care and driving positive outcomes for women and babies. I am a well-regarded mentor to all medical and midwifery staff.
     
    I have a special interest in premature labour and birth and how we can continue to develop and implement incremental changes to improve outcomes for parents and babies. I am part of several committees including the Neonatal Deteriorating Patient Committee, Small Baby Working Group and a founding member of the Operative Vaginal Birth Steering Committee.
     
    The Operative Vaginal Birth Committee uses research and the collective thoughts and ideas from our multi-disciplinary team of clinical staff and consumers, to implement iterative improvements to policies and processes leading to positive tangible outcomes for mothers and babies. The work we have carried out has delivered some of the most positive changes to instrumental birth practices ever implemented at Monash Health Birth Suite. It is an enormous honour and privilege to be a founding member and representative of this committee.

  • Andrew Olson, MD Andrew Olson, MD
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    Andrew Olson, MD

    Andrew Olson, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
    University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis, MN

    Dr. Andrew Olson is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he practices hospital medicine and pediatrics. He serves as the founding Director of the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.  Dr. Olson presently serves as the Director of Medical Education Research and Innovation in the Medical Education Outcomes Center, focusing on linking education with clinical and workforce outcomes. Dr. Olson's academic work focuses on the nature and development of clinical reasoning  as well as methods to measure and decrease diagnostic error.

  • Claire O’Hanlon, PhD, MPP Claire O’Hanlon, PhD, MPP
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    Claire O’Hanlon, PhD, MPP

    Claire O’Hanlon, PhD, MPP

    Associate Policy Researcher
    RAND Corporation
    Santa Monica, CA

    Dr. Claire E. O'Hanlon is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. O’Hanlon is a health services and policy researcher experienced in applied quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Her current work focuses on quality and outcome measurement in health care. Her work has been published in Health Affairs, Medical Care, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Implementation Science, and has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Hill, congressional testimony, and various health care trade publications and military news sources. O'Hanlon was previously a Health Science Specialist at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research. O’Hanlon holds a doctorate in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School, and a B.S. in engineering from Harvey Mudd College. In 2018 she was named a Delivery Systems Science Fellow by AcademyHealth and a “40-for-40” outstanding early career research professional by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

  • Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c) Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c)
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    Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c)

    Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, EdD(c)

    Professor and Vice Chair for Education
    Department of Emergency Medicine
    Thomas Jefferson University
    Philadelphia, PA
    Associate Dean for Faculty Development
    Health Systems Science Thread Director, JeffMD
    Director, Scholarly Inquiry Track in Medical Education
    Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
    Philadelphia, PA
    Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Health Professions Education & Scholarship
    Thomas Jefferson University, Center City Campus
    Philadelphia, PA

    Dimitrios (Dimitri) Papanagnou is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) of Thomas Jefferson University (Jefferson) in Philadelphia. He serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at SKMC. He extends his commitment to faculty across the university as the Associate Provost for Faculty Development, with a specific emphasis on health professions education and scholarship. His work in faculty development centers around the creation of tailored programs designed to meet diverse and emerging needs across and beyond Jefferson’s campuses. Beyond these roles, he oversees the medical school’s Health Systems Science (HSS) curriculum, and designed and currently leads SKMC’s first-ever Scholarly Inquiry Track in Medical Education. As a 2020 Macy Faculty Scholar, he developed and implemented a vertically-aligned curriculum for uncertainty in clinical practice. His research interests lie at the intersection of HSS, uncertainty in clinical practice, diagnostic uncertainty, and medical education. In 2022, Dr. Papanagnou was named a Scholar of Diagnostic Excellence by the National Academy of Medicine and Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

  • photo due Read Pierce, MD
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    Read Pierce, MD

    Associate Professor
    Dell Medical School
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Austin, TX

  • Irit Rasooly, MD, MSCE Irit Rasooly, MD, MSCE
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    Irit Rasooly, MD, MSCE

    Irit Rasooly, MD, MSCE

    Attending Physician
    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, PA

    Dr. Irit R. Rasooly is a pediatric clinician researcher with a focus on diagnostic excellence. She leads the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Diagnostic Excellence and has research funding from AHRQ.

  • Victor Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM Victor Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM
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    Victor Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM

    Victor Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM

    Executive Director, Aging and Ambulatory Care
    ECRI
    Plymouth Meeting, PA

    Victor Rose has worked in the healthcare and non-profit sector for 30 years, serving in various executive and leadership roles. Currently, he serves as ECRI’s Executive Director of Aging and Ambulatory Care, coordinating business development and consulting in safety, risk management, and quality improvement to providers nationwide and across the aging care continuum. Before joining ECRI, he served as COO for 17 years with a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community leading administration (e.g., operational finance, strategic and annual planning, staffing and scheduling, admissions and discharges, licensing surveys, risk management, emergency preparedness and response), direct care, and support service delivery (e.g., environmental services, dining services, human services) among other responsibilities. During that time in 1995, he also designed and opened one of Pennsylvania’s first special care dementia units in Personal Care (Assisted Living).

    Victor holds a BS in Management (healthcare concentration) from the University of North Carolina - Asheville, an MBA from DeSales University, is a Fellow at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and is a licensed nursing home administrator in Pennsylvania. He has taught management at DeSales University, served on LeadingAge PA’s Public Policy Committee, and authored numerous healthcare management and aging services articles and white papers. Topics include state survey preparedness, budgeting, risk management, building design, staffing and scheduling, legal discovery and QAPI, scope of service, and most recently postincident investigations, postincident notifications and emergency preparedness in relations to outbreak and pandemic response.

    Additional professional activities include serving as Board Member (past President) for the Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society (EPGS), as Column Editor for Annals of Long-Term Care (ALTC) “ECRI Strategies” column, and on the ALTC editorial board. Victor also serves on the Board of Managers for Meadowood at Home program, a Life Plan Community located in Skippack, PA.

  • Michael A. Rosen, PhD, MA Michael A. Rosen, PhD, MA
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    Michael A. Rosen, PhD, MA

    Associate Professor
    Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
    Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
    Baltimore, MD

    Dr. Rosen is a Human Factors Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a principal faculty member in the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Associate Director for Team Science at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Interim Director of Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Simulation Center, and Co-Director of the Applied Master of Science Program in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Rosen has taught the TeamSTEPPS® Master Trainer course in the U.S. and internationally and helped to develop the TeamSTEPPS® for Improving Diagnosis Resource for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  • Douglas Salvador, MD, MPH Douglas Salvador, MD, MPH
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    Douglas Salvador, MD, MPH

    SVP & Chief Quality Officer
    Baystate Health, Inc.
    Springfield, MA

    Doug Salvador leads the Department of Healthcare Quality at Baystate Health. He collaborates with colleagues throughout the system to promote a learning health system, develop strategy for quality and patient safety, and coordinate health care for the community. Using his training in medicine, engineering, and epidemiology, Dr. Salvador is focused on the redesign of healthcare delivery systems, promoting diagnostic excellence, undergraduate and postgraduate education of quality and safety, and fostering a culture of patient safety.

    A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University (Biomedical Engineering) and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Salvador trained in infectious diseases at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He practiced as a hospital epidemiologist after receiving a Masters in Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Board President of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

  • Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE
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    Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE

    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    New York City, NY

    Verity Schaye serves as the Assistant Dean of Education in the Clinical Sciences and the Director of Integrated Clinical Skills in the Office of Medical Education at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and clinically as an internal medicine hospitalist at Bellevue Hospital. She completed her MD in 2008 and completed her internal medicine residency training at New York university School of Medicine in 2011. In 2016, she received a MHPE from Maastricht University with an education research focus in best practices to teach and assess clinical reasoning and also serves as the Assistant Director for Curricular Innovation in the Institute for Innovations in Medical Education at NYU focusing on innovative assessment of clinical reasoning including use of artificial intelligence to assess clinical reasoning documentation. She was a SIDM Fellow in 2019 and is chairing this year's conference.

  • Gordon Schiff, MD Gordon Schiff, MD
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    Gordon Schiff, MD

    Associate Director
    Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
    Boston, MA

    Dr. Schiff is a practicing general internist and Associate Director of Brigham and Women’s Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and Quality and Safety Director for Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care.

    He has published widely in areas of medication and diagnosis safety. He was a reviewer and contributor to the 2015 National Academy of Medicine Report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. He chairs editorial board of Medical Care. He has authored more than 200 papers and chapters including several recent papers detailing conservative prescribing and diagnosis practices as ways to transform unsafe and costly use of drugs and diagnostic testing.

    He is recipient of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the 2019 Mark Graber Diagnosis Safety Award by the Society for Improving Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), and in 2020 John Eisenberg Award by the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission.

  • Theresa Schousek, BSCEE, MBA, MPH in-process Theresa Schousek, BSCEE, MBA, MPH in-process
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    Theresa Schousek, BSCEE, MBA, MPH in-process

    President
    Vital Innovations LLC

    Theresa Schousek is an engineer and consultant, at Vital Innovations LLC, whose interest lies in applying quality engineering and improvement practices to healthcare operational processes. She believes that patients and caregivers are important stakeholders in healthcare processes. Theresa has personally experienced three Adverse Events, and is a passionate patient advocate. She holds a BSCEE in computer and electrical engineering, an MBA in management, and is working on an MPH from Imperial College London. The global program at Imperial teaches different countries’ approaches to healthcare challenges. She is married with two living children. She enjoys playing piano with her tiny dog, Tippi.

  • Grant Shafer, MD, MA Grant Shafer, MD, MA
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    Grant Shafer, MD, MA

    Neonatologist
    Children’s Hospital of Orange County
    Orange, CA

    Neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Orange County. My interest is in diagnostic safety in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) - specifically quantification and classification of missed diagnostic opportunities as well as quality improvement interventions to improve diagnosis in the NICU. Clinically I provide service in the Surgical NICU and ECMO teams.

  • Eliezner Shinnar Eliezer Shinnar, MD
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    Eliezer Shinnar, MD

    Resident
    New York Presbyterian Hospital
    New York, NY

    Dr. Shinnar is a Clinical Hospitalist and Medical Educator. A graduate of Emory University and Columbia University Medical Centers, he recently concluded a fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). At the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Dr. Shinnar's contributions span from overseeing patient care to participating in committees dedicated to patient safety and substance use disorders. His research has addressed issues in the medical field, including the safety of medical transfers, healthcare workforce dynamics, and patient safety protocols.

  • Jenny Sloane, MS, PhD Jenny Sloane, MS, PhD
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    Jenny Sloane, MS, PhD

    HRS Postdoctoral Fellow
    US Dept. of VA and Baylor College of Medicine

    I’m a postdoc fellow in Health Services Research and Development at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, which is associated with the Houston VA and Baylor College of Medicine. I received my PhD in cognitive psychology from University of New South Wales. My research interests include improving diagnostic decision-making, reducing errors in medicine, and studying the effects of interruptions and time-pressure on decision-making.

  • kelly_smith Kelly Smith, PhD, MSc.
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    Kelly Smith, PhD, MSc.

    Associate Professor, Program Director, Health Systems Research – Outcomes & Evaluation
    University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Laurence S. Sperling, MD Laurence S. Sperling, MD
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    Laurence S. Sperling, MD

    Emory University School of Medicine
    Million Hearts™

    Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory (1997-2019). He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Sperling is the current Executive Director of Million Hearts for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and serves as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, and the Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling founded (in 2004) and directs the first and only LDL apheresis program in the state of Georgia, and was the PI for The National FH Registry site at Emory. He has received awards for excellence in both teaching (including 4 Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award) and mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award). He has been an investigator in a number of important clinical trials and has authored over 350 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters.

  • Jonathan Stewart Jonathan D. Stewart, JD, MSc, MS, RN
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    Jonathan D. Stewart, JD, MSc, MS, RN

    Senior Director, Risk Management and Patient Safety
    BETA Healthcare Group
    Roseville, CA

    Jonathan Stewart is a risk and safety consultant to hospitals, health care facilities, and medical groups, providing consultation, education, and risk assessment services to BETA members and insureds. Drawing upon his training in human factors and his clinical background in emergency nursing, he provides education on the investigation and analysis of adverse events. He supports organizations in their development of communication and resolution programs.
     
    Mr. Stewart received master’s degrees in human factors and system safety from Lund University in Sweden and in nursing (health policy) from the University of California at San Francisco. He earned his law degree from the University of Tulsa and has been admitted to the bars of California, Washington, and Alaska. He holds professional certifications in patient safety and healthcare risk management.

  • Collin Stultz, MD, PhD Collin Stultz, MD, PhD
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    Collin Stultz, MD, PhD

    Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Boston, MA
    Director, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Boston, MA
    Associate Director, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Boston, MA

    Dr. Collin M. Stultz is the Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor in Medical Engineering and Science, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and an associate member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also a practicing cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Stultz received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Harvard University; a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University; and a MD from Harvard Medical School. He did his internship, residency, and fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His scientific contributions have spanned multiple fields including computational chemistry, biophysics, and machine learning for cardiovascular risk stratification. He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and he is a past recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences. Currently research in his group is focused on the development of machine learning tools that can guide clinical decision making.

  • Julie Thai Julie Thai
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    Julie Thai

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Stanford University School of Medicine
    Stanford, CA

    Dr. Julie Thai, MD, MPH is geriatric medicine specialist who is dual board certified in both geriatric medicine and family medicine. She completed her fellowship training in geriatric medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Before that, she completed her family medicine residency at McLaren-Flint/Michigan State University College of Human Medicine where she also earned her medical degree.  Additionally, Dr. Thai holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Thai has contributed to research in rheumatology (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and ankylosing spondylitis), urology (renal stone disease, clinical markers and outcomes, and testing and development of new technologies), and end of life care. She has co-authored articles on topics such as caregivers’ communication with elders living with late-life disability, palliative care practices in diverse settings, and the social consequences of forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s disease. She is currently the 2022-2023 SIDM Age-Friendly Care Fellow. Her work focuses on developing curriculum in undergraduate and graduate medical education to help medical learners improve their diagnosis of older adult patients.

  • Jean-Luc Tilly Jean-Luc Tilly
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    Jean-Luc Tilly

    Program Manager in Health Care Ratings
    The Leapfrog Group
    Washington, DC

    Jean-Luc Tilly joined The Leapfrog Group in 2020 and works directly with experts and stakeholders to identify new opportunities for measurement and coordinates activities of Leapfrog’s public reporting and rating programs. At Leapfrog, Jean-Luc co-leads the Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis program funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The program recommends practices hospitals can adopt to improve diagnostic quality and safety, eventually leading to a publicly reporting dataset on hospital performance in diagnostic safety and quality to engage consumers and purchasers and foster meaningful accountability for hospitals. Jean-Luc currently co-leads the Patient Expert Panel, identifying new measurement opportunities in hospital billing practices and the informed consent process. He also provides technical assistance to hospitals and health systems around the country working to implement Leapfrog’s standards. Before joining Leapfrog, Jean-Luc served for over four years as a Senior Project Manager at the National Quality Forum, focusing on NQF’s project to improve diagnostic safety and quality, NQF’s Measure Applications Partnership with CMS to add new measures to federal reporting programs, and NQF’s Measure Selection Tool (MSeT). Earlier, Jean-Luc worked on the 2014 edition of AARP’s Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard, and with the Center to Champion Nursing in America. He earned his Master’s in Public Administration from George Washington University in 2019.

     

  • Gabor Toth Gabor Toth
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    Gabor Toth

    Physician
    University of Debrecen

    Gabor Toth is a physician and physician-economist at the University of Debrecen with 10+ years of experience in academic research and seven years of experience in business in the medical education field. Currently specializing in laboratory medicine/clinical pathology, Gabor uses that experience to advance and support efficient clinical diagnostics. By focusing on efficient diagnostics, Gabor has put the MD, PhD and physician-economist degrees he earned at the University of Debrecen and Corvinus University of Budapest to good use. Over the years, Gabor's strengths at InSimu have garnered recognition by national and international startup awards in the medical and educational space. When he is not at the Clinical Center, he is an avid classical pianist who loves traveling with family.

  • Laura Tuchman, MHA, CSSB Laura Tuchman, MHA, CSSB
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    Laura Tuchman, MHA, CSSB

    Consultant III
    Southern California Permanente Medical Group
    Pasadena, CA

    Every misdiagnosis carries the weight of missed opportunities, but for Laura Tuchman, it sparked a relentless pursuit to eradicate diagnostic errors and improve patient outcomes through cutting-edge strategies and groundbreaking research. Laura is a seasoned consultant dedicated to transforming healthcare through her role at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, (SCPMG), Diagnostic Excellence Program. Laura combines her extensive experience in care experience with a passion for diagnostic excellence. Drawing inspiration from her own personal encounters with the healthcare system, Laura understands the profound impact that accurate and timely diagnoses has on an individual’s life.   As a representative of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) Diagnostic Excellence Program, Laura is thrilled to unveil a collection of impactful videos focused on inspiring patients to take an active role in their healthcare journeys. The SCPMG Diagnostic Excellence Program has curated these videos to provide invaluable insights, practical tips, and heartfelt stories that resonate with individuals seeking to be partners in their own well-being. These videos aim to foster a culture of empowerment, where patients are informed, engaged, and confident in making healthcare decisions. Laura looks forward to the transformative impact these videos will have, empowering patients to navigate their healthcare experiences with knowledge and agency.

  • Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD
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    Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD

    Lecturer
    Department of General Medicine, Chiba University
    Chiba, Japan

    I graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine in 2003 and obtained a medical license (Japanese National Medical Board, No. 431883). Subsequently, I underwent general medicine training at Chiba University Hospital and Asahi General Hospital, and since 2008, I have been working in the Department of General Medicine at Chiba University Hospital. Currently, I hold the positions of Lecturer and Vice-chair in General Medicine at Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.    My specialties include general medicine, diagnostic reasoning, and medical safety. From 2023, I have been conducting research funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research ("KAKENHI") from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, such as "Development and Effect Measurement of a Cross-Domain Clinical Support System for Inpatients in Organ-Specialized Medical Departments". I have also obtained grants from the Health Labour Sciences Research Grant of The Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for projects such as  and "Development of Physician distribution Index Based on Visualization of Organ-Specialist Physicians' Primary Care Practices Using DPC and Time Study."    Furthermore, since 2022, I have served as the Chairperson of the Committee for Continuous Professional Development at the Japanese Medical Specialty Board for General Medicine, which was established in 2018. One of my primary responsibilities at present is to act as a comprehensive medicine practitioner who integrates extensive knowledge and serves as a translator and mediator, bridging the gap between patients' language and the medical world, and achieving the role of general medicine in advanced medical institutions.

  • Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS
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    Viralkumar Vaghani, MBBS, MPH, MS

    Biostatistician
    Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Viralkumar Vaghani is a Biostatistician at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) VA Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests include improving patient safety, developing electronic trigger algorithms to measure diagnostic errors, and application of machine learning to improve diagnosis in medicine. He is a former SIDM fellow of Diagnostic Excellence.

  • Samantha Wang Samantha Wang, MD
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    Samantha Wang, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA

    Samantha Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University and a practicing hospitalist. She graduated from Stanford Internal Medicine residency and completed a Chief Resident year followed by a Rathmann Family Fellowship in Medical Education. Her scholarly interests include creating, implementing, and assessing educational innovations throughout the continuum of medical education with a focus on health equity and anti-racism. Her research uses mixed methods, including community-based participatory research and qualitative methods to study and promote teaching health equity to clinical learners. She has been recognized regionally and nationally for her contributions to the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

  • Jennie Ward-Robinson Jennie Ward-Robinson, PhD
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    Jennie Ward-Robinson, PhD

    Chief Executive Officer
    Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
    Alpharetta, GA

    Dr. Ward-Robinson is a transformational leader known for engaging diverse interests and stakeholders to produce systemic solutions to human development challenges. She has over 20 years of executive leadership within academic, multilateral, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. Her expertise includes strategic planning, operations management, brand positioning, fund development, and delivering mission-linked outcomes. Currently, she serves as a Senior Advisor to the Dean of College and Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University, as Co-Director of the Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora.

    Dr. Ward-Robinson is a frequently invited speaker to national and international audiences. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Houston at Clear Lake for her work in minority health.

    Dr. Ward-Robinson successfully led initiatives in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, from which peer-reviewed publications and related policy products have resulted.

    Recently appointed as vice-chair of the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Dr. Ward- Robinson has served on various Boards, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s National Drinking Water Council, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable, the Alliance for Water Efficiency, and the Illinois Chapter of the Nature Conservancy among others.

    Dr. Ward-Robinson holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has completed numerous executive and leadership training programs from leading institutions that include the Center for Creative Leadership and the Northwestern Kellogg School of Nonprofit Management.

  • Takashi Watari, MD, MHQS, PhD Takashi Watari, MD, MHQS, PhD
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    Takashi Watari, MD, MHQS, PhD

    Associate Professor
    General Medicine Center, Shimane University Hospital
    Izumo City, Japan

  • Brad Wenstrup, DPM Brad Wenstrup, DPM
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    Brad Wenstrup, DPM

    Congressman
    United States House of Representatives

    Brad Wenstrup was elected in 2012 to represent the people of Ohio's Second Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He brings experience as a doctor, Army Reserve officer, Iraq War veteran, and small business owner to help Congress tackle the economic and security challenges facing the nation. In the 118th Congress, Brad serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He also serves as Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Previously, Congressman Wenstrup spent six years on the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. As a member on the Ways and Means and Intelligence Committees, Brad is working to address the national health and systemic poverty issues, while strengthening our national security. He has long been a voice of support for southern Ohio's veteran community. He also serves as a Co-Chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus.

    A Cincinnati native, Brad graduated from Saint Xavier High School and the University of Cincinnati. He went on to earn a medical degree in Chicago as a podiatric physician and after completing his surgical residency he established private practice in Cincinnati, treating patients for 26 years. Brad served in U.S. Army Reserve from 1998-2022, retiring with the rank of colonel. In 2005-06, he served a tour in Iraq as a combat surgeon, and was awarded a Bronze Star and Combat Action Badge for his service. In 2018, Colonel Wenstrup was awarded the Soldier's Medal for heroism. During his time in Congress, Brad fulfilled his Reserve duties by serving as the Medical Policy Advisor for the Chief of the Army Reserve as well as seeing patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. Brad and his wife, Monica, reside in Southern Ohio with their two children.

  • Bethany Wickramasinghe, BSc Bethany Wickramasinghe, BSc
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    Bethany Wickramasinghe, BSc

    Psychology PhD Student
    University College London
    London, England

    Bethany is undertaking a mixed methods PhD at University College London exploring the utility of prescriptions data in improving early cancer detection in primary care. She is funded by the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Programme and works with UCL’s Epidemiology of Cancer Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) group.   Bethany is a data scientist with a background in population health research. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked in partnership with the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) at Public Health England and the NHS’ Transforming Cancer Services Team for London (TCST).  Bethany is particularly interested in patient and healthcare factors that can signal earlier diagnostic opportunities, specifically prescriptions information in the context of non-specific symptoms and cancer. Through the course of her PhD, she hopes to reveal viable mechanisms to better target healthcare interventions.

  • Thilan Wijesekera Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS
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    Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS

    Assistant Professor, Program of Hospital Medicine
    Yale School of Medicine
    New Haven CT

    Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry before completing his residency training in Yale University’s Primary Care Residency Program. He subsequently completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship in Medical Education at Yale University School of Medicine, during which he received a Master of Health Science degree in the Medical Education Pathway. In 2018, he joined the Academic Hospitalist Program in the Yale Section of General Internal Medicine. He is active in medical education, particularly at Yale University School of Medicine, where he has roles as the Director(s) of Clinical Reasoning and Remediation. He also has a role in the Teaching and Learning Center as an Associate for Clinical Reasoning Educator Development, where he provides and collaborates on consultations, workshops, and scholarship related to teaching clinical reasoning. Dr. Wijesekera's educational interests include clinical skills, curriculum development, education and mentorship for medical students and residents. His research interests include clinical reasoning, diagnostic error, and interprofessional education with recent publications in Academic Medicine, Medical Teacher, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. He gives faculty development workshops regionally and nationally on teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic error, on which he completed a fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (2018).

  • Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA
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    Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA

    MCIC Vermont, LLC
    New York City, NY

    Dr. Ronald Wyatt serves as SIDM's Chief Science and Medical Officer. Former roles include Vice-President and Patient Safety Officer at MCIC Vermont and Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer at Cook County Health, one of the largest public health systems in the United States. Dr. Wyatt is nationally recognized in the United States as an expert in patient safety and was named several times by Becker’s as one of the “Top 50 Patient Safety Experts” in the U.S. In 2010, Ron was appointed as Director of the Patient Safety Analysis Center in the U.S. Department of Defense, now the Defense Health Agency. Dr. Wyatt was the first Patient SafetyOfficer at the Joint Commission and in that role contributed to National Patient Safety Goals, Sentinel Event Alerts, and developed the “Quick Safety” publication.

    Dr. Wyatt is a member of the ACGME Clinical Learning Environment Review Committee (CLER). Ron currently serves as co-chair of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Equity Advisory Group. He presents nationally and internationally on leadership, safety culture, safety event analysis, human factors in healthcare, patient experience, and health equity. He also serves on several boards, including the IHI Certified Professional in Patient Safety and, formally, the Society to Prevent Diagnosis in Medicine.

    Dr. Wyatt is a credentialed course instructor in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Dr. Wyatt is a graduate of the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine and holds an executive master’s in health administration degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham. He was a 2009-2010 Merck Fellow at IHI.

  • Daniel Yang, MD Daniel Yang, MD
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    Daniel Yang, MD

    Daniel Yang, MD

    Program Director
    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    Palo Alto, CA

    Daniel Yang, MD is a program director of Patient Care at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where he established the Diagnostic Excellence Initiative. The initiative aims to reduce harm from erroneous or delayed diagnoses, reduce costs and redundancy in the diagnostic process and improve patients outcomes through timely, accurate, efficient, equitable and patient-centered diagnoses. Daniel is also a practicing hospitalist and a board-certified internal medicine physician. He completed his residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. He subsequently completed a fellowship in health care systems design at Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center. He received his bachelors and medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

  • Andrew Zimolzak Andrew Zimolzak, MD, MMSc
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    Andrew Zimolzak, MD, MMSc

    Assistant Professor
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX

    Andrew Zimolzak is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, department of medicine, section of health services research; and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt). Dr. Zimolzak has studied the secondary use of routinely collected medical data for 10 years. He has direct experience with the retrieval and analysis of data from electronic medical records from multiple health care systems, as well as medical insurance claims. This work has been applied to physicians’ delayed follow-up of patient test results, diagnostic errors in the emergency department, randomized trials of medications for hypertension and heart failure, pharmacogenomics, lung cancer genomic precision medicine, kidney failure prediction, and outcome prediction in COVID-19. Dr. Zimolzak has practiced general internal medicine in urgent care and inpatient hospital settings for over ten years. In addition to research efforts, he is a teaching hospitalist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston. His interests include deriving accurate phenotype information from medical records, machine learning for improved efficiency of data cleaning, and research code reproducibility and sharing. He has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

  • Laura Zwaan, PhD Laura Zwaan, PhD
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    Laura Zwaan, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Erasmus MC
    Institute of Medicinal Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR)
    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Laura Zwaan, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR) of the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. She is a cognitive psychologist and epidemiologist who dedicates her career to understanding and improving the diagnostic process. She is committed to create awareness for the topic of diagnostic error in medicine. Laura initiated the European Diagnostic Error in Medicine conferences and was the main organizer and chair of the 1st European conference in Rotterdam in 2016 and the co-chair for the conference in Bern, Switzerland (2018). Dr. Zwaan is an active member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and has been on the scientific committee for the Diagnostic Error in Medicine conferences for 8 years (2011-2018) and she served as the chair of the SIDM research committee (2015-2017).